Learn PARSIMONY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
1. Because her father wouldn't let her buy a new iPhone, Annie accused him of parsimony.
2. At no point in their history had the Dreevers been what one might call a parsimonious family.
3. Nevertheless, such a phenomenon is rare in Russia, where the tendency is rather to prodigality than to parsimony.
Meanings and Examples of PARSIMONY |